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The Scramble for Africa

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

Opened up to the world once more England drank in...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...

This is an exploration of the history behind the great...

The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century...

Against a background of political instability architectural initiative was captured...

Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes...

England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...

If there was any single belief that characterised the Victorian...

'Victorian' came in the twentieth century to stand for sexual...